Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Mar 17)

[Michael Hudson]

Tim Peters <tim.one at comcast.net> writes:

> Also, AFAIK, no absolutely normal number is known (constructed or
> not).  This is curious because the set of non-normal reals has
> measure 0 ("almost all" reals are absolutely normal).

<hand-waving>
But for a number to be "known", it must be comptuable in some sense
and there are only countable many Turing machines...
</hand-waving>

Why does anyone care about normality, anyway?

Cheers,
M.

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